New video of women and children from Mariupol’s bunkers: only a few days’ food and water left

Kateryna Tyshchenko – Sunday, 24 April 2022, 22:15

Fighters of the Azov Regiment who are still defending the citizens of Mariupol at the Azovstal steelworks have released a new video from the bunkers where civilians are hiding from Russian attacks.

Source: Azov Regiment

Details: In the video the women who are hiding in the Azovstal bunkers with their children say that their supplies of food and water will only last for a couple of days.

They also say that the children can’t sleep due to the constant shelling. They have gone a month and a half without seeing the sun.

In the video people are shown sleeping on their own dirty clothes, in very humid, mouldy premises. A 1-year-old child sleeps there too, wearing a bin bag for a nappy.

All of these people are begging the world and the government of Ukraine for help.

Earlier: On 23 April the Azov Regiment published the first video from the Azovstal bunker in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Background:

• Russian occupying forces in Mariupol began clearing away the rubble of the National Drama Theatre in Mariupol. The theatre, a hiding place for hundreds of Mariupol residents, was destroyed when Russian troops dropped a powerful bomb on it. The bodies of the civilians killed in the attack were not identified before being taken to mass graves on the outskirts of Mariupol.
• Russian occupiers are burying the bodies of thousands of Mariupol residents killed in Russian attacks on the city in mass graves on the outskirts of the city.
• According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia is planning to deploy Russian Guards and Federal Security Service officers to continue the assault on Azovstal.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that Ukrainian troops in Mariupol currently lack sufficient weapons to carry out a military operation to break the siege of Mariupol.